Reminds me of the best line ever from a Western movie uttered by Eli Wallach: "When you have to shoot -- shoot, don't talk." A motto that was uniformily followed by his illustrious co-star Clint Eastwood playing the man with no name.

Hes a mute... duh

No way do I want my character to have a game provided voice. What I want to say is what I want to say, not some writer. I don't even want my character to cry out in pain, if they need to whimper, I can do that.

The reason is, every character says something different in every situation. Some are nice, some are mean, some say things that can't repeated on these forums without a lot of [censored] tags. Sometimes my characters don't even talk.

Because it is a make your own character game. They should'nt and usually ar'nt voiced.
To truely make your own character and have all the options, they always best left none speaking.
They need a voice for responses, and that is it.
Anything else would kill your character and the game stone dead.

I have seen what happens when complete and utter morons add voices to MYOC games.

Dragon Age Origins. You pick a voice for sounds, and automatic lines, and that is it.
Works perfectly. 3 races, Elves, dwarves, humans, lots of options.

Dragon Age 2 AKA Mass Effect In A Dragon Age Skin.
Because some morons decided that they would make voiced cutscenes, they only made one race, human.
No elves, no dwarves, because they wasted so much time and money on one race and voiced cutscenes.

So I hope they never have voiced characters, because you don't need them, at all, ever.

In most RPGs, this is true. However, some games, like ME, lend themselves to a voiced character, but that is because the character does not have many choices in the game on how to be. Then again, I never thought ME was that good of a game, so there you go.

I hope TES never goes for a voiced player character, it's a complete waist of time and money that could be spent on improving the game on other areas.

Because dovakiin is a silent canon, which is better than a loud one.

Wait, so we're not supposed to speak our character's dialogue out loud as we play the game? No wonder all of my friends and family stopped talking to me after watching me play Skyrim...

Also, think about how many lines the different voice type actors would have to say.

MY GF used to ask me who I was talking to and why was I yelling.

Now, she understands. Well, OK, she no longer asks me.

Voiced protagonists only really work in games where you're working with a (mostly) pre-defined character. Like Shep in Mass Effect.

In TES? Nah. Also, it'd be waaaaay too much work & memory space. (Think about it: 10 races X 2 sixes X you'd want several "tones" of voice. It'd be gigabytes of voice files. And still not satisfy everyone, since there wouldn't be enough variations.)

99% of voice acted protagonists in games are awful beyond believe.

Mass Effect Bro-Shep is laughably cheesey. Oddly, the Fem-Shep is actually kinda ok.

Yeah, the only way it would work in Skyrim is if they had the guy who played Sheogorath in Shivering Isles voice the protagonist (male and female, all races). Cheese for everyone!

Scratch that. Bad idea. Cheese for no one. Let's keep the protagonist silent.